Beeing a seakayak, the boat needs sections and hatches. I bought the 20cm round hatches from kayak sport. For the form parts, that carries the hatches, I followed the usual way and created a basic for from extruted styreen (XPS) and the final form in carbon fiber.
The scariest moment is to cut a large hole into the boat. And it went wrong. Not terrible but bad and enoing enogh. Pictures later in the process…
Update 08.05.2019
As mentioned – here are the pictures of my fault and how to avoid them.
I cutted away too much of the material. Not a too big of a problem and I can repair but it is a bit frustrating…
To avoid this, I used a paper template of the form and traced that one to the hull and cutted than UNDERSIZE to avoid this happing again.
if you use a sharp router bit…
Best Regards,
Axel
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Scary thing it is to make holes in hull and deck. Have you found my build log (swedish only) of my recent build? For instance this: https://frejbygge.blog.se/besvarliga-luckhal/
Hi Jan – thank you for your suggestion.
Good content 🙂
For me it is always scary to cut a hole into a wooden boat.
Best Regards,
Axel